I am not sure what your claim that value is experiential means. We might not value the negative effects of certain medical treatments but those treatm...
Your claim is that: Can the question of what value is be addressed without regard to what it is that people value? Whatever answer we might give to th...
There are some who are critical of the notion of a political or social science, but many in academic political science departments, wanting to mark an...
From Republican Tom Cole, chairman of the Rules Committee: In other words, an impeachment investigation into whether there are grounds for an impeachm...
The paradox of words is that there would be no Daodejing without words. The text begins with a warning about words, but the warning cannot be given wi...
Right. In order to show that things that look the same are different one needs to acknowledge similarities since they would not look the same if there...
If the facts are that a President has immunity from federal prosecution for crimes he's been impeached for, but acquitted then it would be interesting...
The question of the relationship between ontology and epistemology deserves greater consideration. Questions of ontology are often treated as if they ...
Well, it might be that his decisions will be those his wife concurs with. It might also be that consideration of whether she will concur is a determin...
Of course not! As to how the court will rule, although political bias might favor protecting Trump, I think they are smart enough to see that such a r...
In my opinion, when someone makes an appeal to a particular doctrine they should provide an explanation of what it is being said and how they understa...
I have wasted enough time responding to, by your own admission, your thoughtless words. The cure cannot lie in more words. The only cure would be for ...
This is why common examples such as "the number two is blue" are problematic. It has the advantage of illustrating a clear difference between categori...
But he does say. And what he says is not to be found it what you quoted. This is why attention should be paid to what is said in the beginning wherthe...
As I said in a response to Ludwig: And why is that? You do not say. He does. As I understand it, it is because the solution is to be found by navigati...
The term 'substance' is problematic, but as you indicate it was not a problem unique to Descartes. Does Ryle others who use the term of making a categ...
Just about everything you say demonstrates your disregard for words. If words have no power then they have no power and do not matter. The problem is,...
Living without a god. Living without something higher. Plato does this with the idea of the good. That is something Nietzsche asks us to consider. His...
Your attempt to separate words from their meaning and consequence is the result of your irresponsible defense of Trump's irresponsible claims. Your in...
This is my first time reading Ryle. I took it as an opportunity to fill in some gaps. To read some things I had intentionally neglected. My comments a...
Right. That's the point. Ryle separates the disciplines of biology, physics, and philosophy. As quoted above: The assumption is that there are differe...
Is he? And what is that? Simply citing an article that goes beyond Ryle without identifying which of the issues in this debate are pertinent does not ...
Perhaps I do, but when I ask: what I have in mind is the treatment of the categories of different disciplines, that, for example, as cited, there are ...
I finished reading the first lecture. The question arose for me as to whether Ryle is making his own version of category mistake when he attempts to c...
This whole exchange has been about your attempt to separate words and meaning. I called you out on this from the beginning of this exchange. From my f...
If they are devoid of meaning and significance I'm not going to do for you what you have failed to do for yourself. If your words are devoid of meanin...
Are your words just scratches and sounds without meaning or significance? Can you replace them indiscriminately with any other words? Or, just strings...
No, but you treat them as if they were. Not understanding a language does not mean the words of that language are independent of thought. This shows t...
They are not physical entities like words on a page that exist somewhere that can be shown to you. But words that are on the page or spoken are not, o...
I would be very interested in hearing you start a thread explaining how you think without words and how you understand the words you respond to withou...
The question is the degree to which you think in words. You avoid making the connection. What is at issue is not whether I or any other single individ...
Aristotle said that poetry is more philosophical and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general or universal truths while history give...
So, if you did not like defending Trump then words would not have power? You are incapable of seeing beyond yourself as he is. That much we can agree ...
In this symposium speeches on love take the place of drinking since several participants have hangovers. Two highly regarded poets speak, the tragic p...
A few quick comments. From the second section on consciousness I am reminded of Dewey on the meaning of conscience (con - with, science -knowledge) to...
Of course they do, and you know it. Why do you continue defending Trump if words do not have power? Why do you object to the gag order if words do not...
One of the greatest dangers of words comes from disregard for their importance, as if what Trump says does not matter. When Trump speaks his "patriots...
Plato's city-state in the Republic is a city made in speech. It has never existed in practice and was never intended to. It is created in order to see...
Good point, but to the end and having drank copiously, Socrates appears to remain sober. The dialogue ends: In the Theaetetus Socrates calls himself a...
The Forms are said to each be one and separate, but Plato often tread the just, the beautiful, and the good together. The Greek term kalos is translat...
As I see it, it is more of a question of the particular person. It is connected to the Socratic claim about the examined life. What I need to be aware...
In the Phaedrus Socrates speaks, (265c) We might expect him to say the opposite, beautiful boys are in need of a guardian against eros. How to sort th...
What are we to make of eros as "divine madness"? Rather than attempt to answer this question, I will make a few observations. If philosophy is the ero...
Perhaps for some their life unfolds in predictable ways, either by their own choice or that of others, but when you say that you were totally surprise...
Eros for the good is innate. We all desire what is good. The problem is, we do not always know what that is. This is more complicated and controversia...
Eros is innate to the soul. We all know eros to the extent that we desire what we do not have. But, as the saying goes, love is blind. Philosophy is, ...
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